Free AI events in San Diego

You don't have to spend a dollar to plug into San Diego's AI scene. Every free AI event in the city, gathered in one place and verified daily: meetups, workshops, hackathons, and talks with no ticket price.

Meetups Workshops Hackathons Conferences Networking

Sep

Thu

Tomorrow

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Nucleate San Diego Inside Series: State of AI x Biotech

Bioterraby Nucleate San Diego

Panel at Bioterra in Sorrento Valley on where AI is already producing measurable value in biotech R&D, covering foundation models for biology, AI-enabled discovery platforms, lab automation and the experimental validation problem.

MeetupFreeIntermediateResearchersBusiness

Sep

Sat

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT

Agents, Everywhere: Bots, Channels, & More, Global Hackathon

by AI Tinkerers San Diego

AI Tinkerers San Diego’s day-long builder hackathon for creating working agent prototypes, with resources from OpenAI, CopilotKit and OpenRouter.

HackathonFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchersStudents

Sep

Tue

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

Open Source, On-Premises AI: A Practical Implementation Guide

Venture X San Diegoby San Diego Software Engineers

Practical San Diego session on running AI locally, covering open-source models, graphical and agentic tools, virtualization and self-hosted LLMs. The talk includes demonstrations of an on-premises workflow for engineers exploring more control over their AI stack.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Sep

Thu

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

Google Cloud San Diego Community Meetup

Google San Diego, Building 6420by Google Cloud San Diego Meetup

Evening community meetup at Google's San Diego campus covering AI, cloud infrastructure, big data and emerging technology, with talks and networking for local engineers and architects.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchers

Oct

Thu

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Claude Code Users Group: October Monthly Meeting

University of San Diego Loma Hallby Claude Code Users Group

Monthly San Diego session at the University of San Diego working through agentic coding practice: Claude Code fundamentals, the Claude API, and building with the Model Context Protocol.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Oct

Wed

8:00 AM – 8:00 PM PDT

Solix AI Hackathon

UC San Diego Atkinson Hall, Qualcomm Instituteby Solix Technologies, Inc.

Three-day enterprise AI hackathon at UC San Diego with tracks in data and AI, AI safety and security, pharma, finance, healthcare and social good.

HackathonFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchersStudents

Nov

Thu

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST

Claude Code Users Group: November Monthly Meeting

University of San Diego Loma Hallby Claude Code Users Group

Monthly San Diego session at the University of San Diego working through agentic coding practice: Claude Code fundamentals, the Claude API, and building with the Model Context Protocol.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers